Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Outfielder Lucas Duda broke his right wrist while moving furniture last month at his apartment in Southern California. The team said he had surgery on Monday and is expected to be ready for Spring Training in February.

Duda was operated on by Dr. Andrew Weiland at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. The Mets said that Duda will be discharged from the hospital on Tuesday.

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He broke his wrist in southern California, so of course he had operated on in New York. Did they make him walk across the country on his hands, too?
Tip: when you make $400,000 per year, hire somebody to move your furniture.

Most broken wrists are what are called FOOSH (Fall On OutStretched Hand) injuries. It's be easy to do with a stumble while carrying something up some stairs or something.

He broke his wrist in southern California, so of course he had operated on in New York. Did they make him walk across the country on his hands, too?

Often with broken wrists you first try a conservative treatment of just putting a cast on the thing and waiting. That's less risky than surgery and works well for milder injuries. It's possible that Duda has had a cast on it for a couple of weeks and it was decided that it wasn't healing like they'd hoped, and they operated then.

It's also possible (and maybe even likely) that he hurt it doing something completely stupid and tried to hide it and hope it went away, not knowing that it was broken.

The venison injury has been pretty well circulated. Jayson Stark had a compendium of weird baseball player injuries a year or two ago. The oddest one, to me, was a player who flinched violently during a nightmare and hurt himself. Here are some of them: http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/zero/f1_t69.shtml

Often with broken wrists you first try a conservative treatment of just putting a cast on the thing and waiting.

They don't have any competent ortho surgeons in southern Cal? Flying's a big enough drag when you're whole.
Lucas is a big boy. He probably found out there was food under his couch and picked it up and tossed it across the room.

Better than Adam Eaton stabbing himself in the stomach while trying to cut open a DVD wrapper. Or Mike Remlinger breaking a finger while operating a recliner.

I got my first stitches opening a can of some vending machine food. I grabbed the ring with my thumb and forefinger and had my other fingers extended out. The lid came off after being stuck and drove the side of the lid into my middle finger.

My last (hopefully) set of stitches was caused by me trimming a pinewood derby car so my kid wouldn't cut himself. :(

The venison story I've heard before. The venison version where Barmes actually fell off a four-wheeler is new to me.

Yeah, me too. I remember that it was groceries first because he was on my fantasy team and he was hitting .400 or so at the time. Then I heard the revision of the deer meat. Never heard it was actually a four-wheeler. Did that come out way later or something?

I got my first stitches opening a can of some vending machine food. I grabbed the ring with my thumb and forefinger and had my other fingers extended out. The lid came off after being stuck and drove the side of the lid into my middle finger.

First real set of stitches was freshman year of college when I dropped a bottle of iced tea and a piece of the glass sliced open my hand, narrowly missing the tendons. The nurse didn't believe it was "just iced tea" in the bottle, although at that point in my life I had never tried alcohol before (that didn't last much longer).

Also Jose Cardenal missed a game in 1974 because he swore he couldnt blink his eyes.

Cardenal, at least by the time he got to the Cubs, was one of the game's "great" jokers and this was almost surely him putting the media on. During a rain delay once, WGN actually set him up with a mike in the dugout for the "Jose Cardenal Show" ... it was pretty good at least for my probably not yet fully culturally sensitive 11-year-old self. The interview with Randy Hundley -- which was basically a battle between Jose's Spanglish and Hundley's southern drawl -- was a hoot.

The incidents were about 5 years apart. They were unrelated - different ligaments were injured. Luckily, neither injury was severe enough that they required surgery, though I will admit to still being very cautious with tremolo as a result.

Yeah, me too. I remember that it was groceries first because he was on my fantasy team and he was hitting .400 or so at the time. Then I heard the revision of the deer meat. Never heard it was actually a four-wheeler. Did that come out way later or something?

Sorry, should have checked to make sure my hazy memory was correct. The groceries story was concocted to keep Helton's name out of it, but it was the deer meat going up the stairs that did the trick. Barmes and Helton both said the day of 4-wheeling was not the source of the injury.